Best countries to live in ...

[Meule]

I'll keep you posted, I might know details as soon as within a couple of days so I'll be in touch.

Sweet
More chocolate coming up

[Gorn Captain]

Any MM members visiting Belgium get the usual keg of beer, of course.
Nobody leaves our country sober....
Hell, I live here, and prefer not to be sober...

[nvmbrsdoom5]

When are you visiting again? Been a while

I'll keep you posted, I might know details as soon as within a couple of days so I'll be in touch.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

That's because you guys don't know what real beer and real chocolate smell like

I do! Mainly because you gave me a whole bunch!

I'm always happy to visit Belgium......and looks like I might be doing so again very soon.......

[Meule]

As many faults as my country might have according to some, I'm pretty happy here and I have yet to find another place where I've thought "I could DEFINITELY live here." And I've been to alot of places. But if I were to choose another country, based on the places I've been to, I would go to Canada or Belgium. They're definitely my favorite places to visit, hands down.

When are you visiting again? Been a while

[nvmbrsdoom5]

As many faults as my country might have according to some, I'm pretty happy here and I have yet to find another place where I've thought "I could DEFINITELY live here." And I've been to alot of places. But if I were to choose another country, based on the places I've been to, I would go to Canada or Belgium. They're definitely my favorite places to visit, hands down.

[Hector]

Is it even legal to travel to Cuba ? ... not counting Guantanamo Bay

I always wondered that.

Only in the U.S.

As far as I know...the rest of the world can freely go to Cuba.

[saildog]

I didn't know they were raaaa-sist

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And finally, a wafer thin mint.

[Mikey]

I didn't know they were raaaa-sist



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[saildog]

I gotta say, the feeling of, "Hey, less than me!" I got from the Japanese was no different for me than walking into a room of people who talk like Mr. William F. Buckley, Jr. and having them think, "This fellow looks and sounds a lot like Garth Brooks. He must be stupid!".

I'm used to that.

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

He loves it. . . . .although it is starting to wear thin... But from the time he was a small boy. . . .he was drawn to the Japanese culture. . . .it is just what he always loved and wanted. . . . .but starting to grow tired of the modern day realities and stress.

[Mikey]

Damn, Dave

I can't believe all that !!!

Why does your brother put up with it ?

He should just leave that god-awful place

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

Even still. . . . .what a place to visit. . . just amazing. . . . even mind blowing many of the things I saw, did, and the people that we met!

[saildog]

I experienced the most amazing generosity and welcome and care from many Japanese when I visited, and had an ABSOLUTE BALL!! Japan is a FANTASTIC place, don't get me wrong.

You can only remain whilst you have work. . . .and the magic number seems to be 42. . . .after that almost no one will keep a foreigner employed. My Brother has been very lucky. . . .but every year it is a gamble whether he gets renewed, which is already unheard of, that he is at his age. He never knows one year to the next if he will have work or be able to continue to live there. He is an Associate Professor of English at a Medical University.

Dave, your points are ringing absolutely true.

I need to temper my enthusiasm with the disclosure that I was there as a US Military Member and while I lived "out in town", I was never fully on my own.

My experience would have been completely different if I didn't have "Uncle Sam" to fall back on and it is in that context that I would choose to go back. Can't imagine trying to carve out a life there under any other circumstance.

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

I experienced the most amazing generosity and welcome and care from many Japanese when I visited, and had an ABSOLUTE BALL!! Japan is a FANTASTIC place, don't get me wrong.

You can only remain whilst you have work. . . .and the magic number seems to be 42. . . .after that almost no one will keep a foreigner employed. My Brother has been very lucky. . . .but every year it is a gamble whether he gets renewed, which is already unheard of, that he is at his age. He never knows one year to the next if he will have work or be able to continue to live there. He is an Associate Professor of English at a Medical University.